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Do your Dark Side Traits Fit? Dysfunctional Personalities in Different Work Sectors
Author(s) -
Furnham Adrian,
Hyde Gillian,
Trickey Geoff
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/apps.12002
Subject(s) - hogan , dysfunctional family , public sector , private sector , big five personality traits , personality psychology , variance (accounting) , psychology , demographic economics , multivariate analysis of variance , personality , business , economics , social psychology , statistics , sociology , accounting , economic growth , clinical psychology , economy , anthropology , mathematics
This study investigates differences in “dark side” traits between those in the public and private sectors, as well as between managers in three distinct industries. In all, 5,693 B ritish adults were tested, roughly half of whom clearly worked in public sector jobs and half in the private sector. We also tested three groups of people (total 1,102) working in very different sectors: finance, insurance, and emergency services. They all completed the H ogan D evelopment S urvey ( HDS ; H ogan & H ogan, 1997), which is a measure of dysfunctional personality styles or potential management derailers. It has 11 dimensions and three higher order factors. Multivariate and univariate analyses of co‐variance (controlling for sex, age, and social desirability) and logistic regressions showed many significant differences, with private sector employees scoring higher on the factor M oving A gainst/ C luster B and lower on the factor M oving A way/ C luster A . The analysis of the three groups showed that those in the emergency services differed on most traits while Finance and Insurance industry personnel were very similar.